For this month’s Inspiring Women interview we talk to Julie Rand, Cycling UK’s Volunteer Communications and Engagement Officer. Julie’s been mountain biking since before it was a thing, and her enthusiasm for women’s riding and mountain biking has helped steer one of the Britain’s key…
January 2019
2019 Burgtec Houseshow Highlights, From Burgtec, Fox Clothing and Santa Cruz
While half of the Singletrack crew suffered in the office with sniffles and coughs, Andi and Ross escaped the lurgy filled environment and took shelter at the 2019 Burgtec Houseshow. This was the first time that Burgtec had put on their very own show, and…
Skinny Dipping #001 – ‘Puffer’s done, the rest of the season’s to come
In the modern MTB world of bike parks and 160mm full sussers it’s easy to forget that there are many other ways to ride and race mountain bikes, some of which involve actually pedalling uphill. This year on Singletrack we’re going to balance things out…
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Editors’ Choice: Chipps’ Cream Of The Crop Gear Of The Year
What a year! After enduring about four winters, we finally had the summer that everyone had been dreaming about for years. Long, dry days, a collection of riding buddies
Video: Shifting Perceptions – A new dawn for women’s MTB?
Crankworx today presents the first episode of a new three part series looking at women in mountain biking. The press release reads: “It’s a time in mountain bike history like no other. For years, women were outnumbered and underrepresented. Their accomplishments, understated. Through it all,…
Editors’ Choice: Andi’s Awards For Excellence
Over the last year, our writers have tested a bucketful of bikes, a barn load of clothing and gear, and attended a bookcase full of cycling events. Which of these, though, have tickled their fancies enough to warrant the bestowing of a coveted Singletrack Editors’…
100% crashes into the armour market with new knee and elbow pads
100% branches out into the armour market with 4 new sets of knee/elbow pads to suit all riders and all budgets. Already well respected in the goggle, helmet and glasses markets, 100% boosts its range of offerings with new knee and elbow armour products for…
First Ride Review: Santa Cruz Chameleon C SE 29 Reserve
There can’t be many models of mountain bike out there which can claim to have the longevity of the Santa Cruz Chameleon. It’s been around since 1996, when it burst onto the scene as one of a small handful of hard-hitting hardtails, boasting the capability…
Santa Cruz Has A New Carba-Carba-Carba-Carba-Carbon-Chameleon
Here’s some news that we think a lot of you are going to be quite interested in; Santa Cruz Bicycles has a brand new mountain bike. Arriving as the Californian brand’s first official bike release for 2019, this one is made from carbon fibre, which…
When Niches Collide: Norco Launches The Bigfoot VLT – A Big, Fat e-MTB
Canadian brand, Norco Bicycles, has just announced a brand new 2019 mountain bike called the Bigfoot VLT.
The Return Of Ragley – Old favourites, favourable pricing
Riders around Singletrack Towers are familiar with the likes of Mmmbop and Blue Pig as local trail names. However, thanks to their origins with local designer Brant Richards, these are also bikes in the Ragley (Woods, to us locals) line up. Old favourites that have…
Singletrack Editors’ Choice Awards – Accolades from Amanda
Over the last year, our writers have tested a bucketful of bikes, a barn load of clothing and gear, and attended a bookcase full of cycling events. Which of these, though, have tickled their fancies enough to warrant the bestowing of a coveted Singletrack Editors’…
First Look: Brand New Hope HB.130 29er
Back in 2017, Hope Technology launched its first ever bike, the HB160. With an eye on racing top level EWS events the HB160 was a big travel pure enduro bike. Fast forward to 2019 and lurking in plain sight on the Hope stand at Core…
Review: The Magura HC 1 – Finger Brake Levers Change The Way Your Brakes Feel
A lever blade may seem like an odd thing to review, but as one of the contact points for your bike, it’s important. Magura started offering these single finger HC levers as an upgrade a few years ago, over the (at the time) stock two-finger…
UK’s First Indoor Bike Park Set To Open In Manchester This February
We’ve just received some very exciting news from a crew called Dirt Factory, who are set to open the UK’s very first indoor bike park – right in the heart of Manchester city centre! The Dirt Factory Indoor Bike Park will be built inside a disused…
Renthal Goes Stealth With Black On Black Fatbars
The Renthal Fatbar (and Fatbar 35) is an iconic bit of kit, used by downhillers, trail riders and enduro elites alike
Singletrack Editors’ Choice Awards – Hannah’s Top 4 Picks Of 2018
Over the last year, our writers have tested a bucketful of bikes, a barn load of clothing and gear, and attended a bookcase full of cycling events. Which of these, though, have tickled their fancies enough to warrant the bestowing of a coveted Singletrack Editors’…
Singletrack Editors’ Choice Awards – Wil’s Top 4 Products Of 2018
Over the last year, our writers have tested a bucketful of bikes, a barn load of clothing and gear, and attended a bookcase full of cycling events. Which of these, though, have tickled their fancies enough to warrant the bestowing of a coveted Singletrack Editors’…
Atherton Bikes Exclusive Interview: We Speak With, Rachel, Gee and Dan at Atherton HQ
We visited Atherton HQ where Andi had an exclusive interview with Rachel, Gee and Dan about Atherton Bikes. So it wasn’t Marin, Norco, YT or Merida. No, today’s news is much more exciting than that. If you missed the official Atherton Bikes Press Release take…
Breaking News: Atherton Bikes, The New Home Of Atherton Racing And The UK’s Latest Bike Brand
News just in that the Athertons have launched their own high-tech mountain bike company. Atherton Bikes will produce titanium lugged, carbon tubed downhill bikes to race on and to sell. In what is possibly going to be the biggest story of the year, Rachel, Gee…
Fresh Goods Friday 432 – The ‘Was That Winter?’ Edition
Arriving a little later in the day than usual, it’s Fresh Goods Friday. But fear not, the goods are still fresh. And our fingers are burning, after such frantic typing efforts. Or maybe it’s chilblains. Yes, we’ve had winter. Or some of it. Was that…
First Ride Review: Islabike Jimi – A Mountain Bike For Those Who Refuse To Grow Old
Islabikes is best known for making good quality children’s bikes. Owner, Isla Rowntree, developed the children’s bike range when she found her friends’ children needed bikes, but that there wasn’t anything out there that met their needs. A similar desire to meet an unmet need…
Islabikes Launches ‘Icons’ Range Of Bikes For Over 65s
That headline isn’t a typo. The brand best known for changing the face of the children’s bike market has launched a range of bikes specifically for the older rider. Owner, Isla Rowntree, first designed her range of children’s bikes having discovered that the market lacked…
Review | Panzer Rim Protection takes on the big guns of the tubeless tyre insert world
Tubeless tyre inserts claim to offer additional protection for your mountain bike rim, so you can run lower tyre pressures for improved traction. The Panzer insert is one of the latest to arrive on the market, so we got our local rim-dinger, David Hayward, to…
Marzocchi Returns To Rear Shocks. Affordable Shocks From This Legendary Company.
Marzocchi is back in the rear coil shock game, with the newly announced Bomber CR shock. In keeping with the re-launch of the Bomber fork, Marzocchi (which is now owned by Fox) is aiming the Bomber at the more affordable end of the rear shock…
10 Online Deals That Will Save You A Bundle – NX Eagle, Five Ten, RockShox
Don’t worry if you missed Black Friday and the New Year Holidays, there are still some amazing online deals to be had and here are 10 of the best. SRAM NX 1×12 Eagle Just £199.99 SRAM’s NX Eagle drivetrain launched last year and offers the…
3 Consumer-Direct Mountain Bikes Tested & Reviewed
With more and more brands selling complete mountain bikes direct to consumer, we decided to check out three of the latest options from Intense, Bird, and Sonder, to put each brand’s service – and bikes – to the test. Over to James Vincent for the…
Updated: Aaron Gwin, Neko Mullally and Jack Moir Make Up The Official 2019 Intense Factory Racing Team
now the news is 100% official! Aaron Gwin, Neko Mullally and Jack Moir will ride for Intense Factory Racing in 2019!
2019 Orange 329 29er Downhill Race/Park Bike Released
2019 Orange 329 gets a big wheel upgrade but promises to handle like its smaller wheeled stablemate. Orange Mountain Bikes has announced its latest, made in the UK, single pivot full suspension bike, and this time it’s a big wheeled downhill monster. The 2019 Orange…
Review: The UK-designed Sonder Evol aims to deliver maximum grins-per-mile
With more and more brands selling complete mountain bikes direct to consumer, we decided to check out three of the latest options from Intense, Bird, and Sonder, to put each brand’s service – and bikes – to the test. Over to James Vincent for the…
Video: Watch Amaury Pierron Ride Reunion Island Trails So You Don’t Have To.
Many of us have awoken this morning to see the ground covered in a few CM of snow. We’ve had the pleasure of dashing out into the cold, dark morning to defrost our windscreens, enjoined the traction-less slush covered roads, and even part-taken in a…
Top 10 Most Read Articles Of 2018. You Guys Really Like 12 speed and 29ers…
We’ve done our top 10 most read reviews, and we’ve done our top 10 most read videos, now feast your eyes on the 10 most read articles on Singletrackworld.com of 2018. Can you guess what will be number 1? 10. First Look: Shimano Introduces 12-Speed…
Review: The Intense Primer Expert comes with extra enthusiasm as standard
With more and more brands selling complete mountain bikes direct to consumer, we decided to check out three of the latest options from Intense, Bird, and Sonder, to put each brand’s service – and bikes – to the test. Over to James Vincent for the…
Review: The Bird Aeris 145 GX Eagle is uber-long and uber-fast
With more and more brands selling complete mountain bikes direct to consumer, we decided to check out three of the latest options from Intense, Bird, and Sonder, to put each brand’s service – and bikes – to the test. Over to James Vincent for the…
Review |Canyon Lux CF SL 8.0 Pro Race – Mile-Muncher For Mortals
The Lux isn’t just Canyon’s latest XC ripper – it’s also the lightest and most advanced full suspension race bike that the German brand has ever produced. We put one into the hands of our tame XC/marathon masochist, Daz, to see if this German lightweight…
With Extra Bundles Of Joy – It’s Fresh Goods Friday 431
There are nerves in the office. A substantial number of staff are all on holiday. But it’s not the extra workload that’s worrying us – it’s the wellbeing of our absent colleagues. It’s a heady concoction of injury potential that’s scattered around the globe right…
The Polaris Aquanought Hydration backpack is ready to face the filth
Winter in the UK can be a problematic time to ride a bike. The daylight seems to last for an hour or two at most, the temperature has plummeted, and then there’s the rain. My god, the rain. Not only are there weeks here when…
Win £2600-Worth Of Entries To The UK’s Newest Multi-Day Race – The Wales360!
There’s a new multi-day mountain bike event in the UK, and we’ve got one free pairs entry for the 2019 event to give away to a very lucky Singletrack reader! The Wales360 is a six-day mountain bike stage race and brand new for 2019, and…
Subscribe Today To Get Singletrack Issue 123 Delivered!
Everything is going downhill. The end is in sight. But in a good way. We’re over the hump of winter, it hasn’t been too unkind, and we’re nearly ready to send our next issue of Singletrack to the printer. Subscribe To Singletrack from as little…
Guy Martin Wants To Degrease You
Proper Degreaser, or to give it its full name, “Proper Degreaser from Proper Cleaner by Guy Martin” is released today and joins its existing (and successful) stablemate, Proper Cleaner in a growing range of bike cleaning potions from the Orange-bike-riding, beanie-wearing, Hope-braking modern day Fred…
All You Need To Know About The 2019 Canyon Strive
After many months of building anticipation, Canyon has finally updated its popular Strive enduro bike. The big news is the move up to 29in wheels, which are increasingly becoming the preferred choice for high-level racers on the Enduro World Series circuit. There’s been a massage…
2019 Canyon Strive First Ride Impressions with Shapeshifter 2.0
To say I was surprised when I laid eyes on the 2019 Strive is an understatement. Of course, we’d had an inkling that we would be meeting the updated Strive in Malaga, but this is not at all what we were expecting. Since the release…
Miranda Miller Joins Kona: “me is a little weird like them”
After a difficult couple of seasons, former DH World Champion Miranda Miller has moved from Specialized to Kona, and with that is shifting her focus to the EWS and – it sounds to us – more fun. The press release announcing the move includes this…
Fox Drops Longer Dropper. The Transfer Post Now Goes To 175mm
It’s been a little while coming, but Fox Racing Shox has finally unveiled a longer travel option for the brilliant Transfer dropper post. And we’ve got one in our grubby little hands to put to the test. Previously only available with 100mm, 125mm or 150mm…
Review: The Cane Creek Helm Coil Fork – Is it better than the Helm Air?
Shortly after releasing its very first mountain bike suspension fork, the Helm, US brand Cane Creek brought out a coil-sprung version. And having amassed no fewer than 7 months of test time aboard this long travel, coil-sprung fork, David Hayward is ready to deliver his…
2019 Team News: Joe Barnes and the Hazzard Racing team on Orange Bikes for 2019
Well, this one came out of left field, after slapping a muddy rut and hitting sender only a mad man/woman would ride! After Joe Barnes posted on social media that he was leaving Canyon we all had our theories as to which team he would…
A Mountain Biker’s First Time In Moab
Last year I made the (very) long journey from Manchester over to Utah in the States (via three flights) to get my first ever experience of riding in Moab. And what an unforgettable trip it was. For a lot of riders all over the world,…
Pro’s Pedals: YT’s Erik Irmisch talks about the perfect pedal/shoe pairing
Out at the launch for the new YT Jeffsy last year, I spotted some unusual looking pins on the pedals of a bike on the uplift trailer. It turned out they belong to Erik Irmish, one of YT’s sponsored riders. Erik rides a lot of…
There’s More To Life Than Shredits: Singletrack’s Top Ten Videos Of 2018
Where we list our most popular Singletrack videos of the year featuring our resident token attractive Australian.
2019 YT Jeffsy Range Revealed!
We’ve been playing you. Sorry, but it had to be done, because some things have to be secrets. Yes, when the new YT 2019 line up was launched, we knew fine well what was coming with the Jeffsy because we’d already ridden it. Sneaky, aren’t…